As was noted in a former letter from up here the condition of the people is distressing in the extreme. Many who have gone south to Nenking and Chinkiang five been forced to return home. People are anxious to sell anything that will bring money. Houses are torn down for the poles and people may be seen carrying all manner of household goods down the street with a piece of reed stuck in the centre of the articles denoting that it is for sale:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.